Dispossessed lives : enslaved women, violence, and the archive
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016].
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016].
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Book
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217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Though their stories appear only briefly in historical records, Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway, inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color, in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos, to the gallows where enslaved people were executed, and with violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death. By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects. -- Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Fuentes, M. J. (2016). Dispossessed lives: enslaved women, violence, and the archive (1st edition). PENN University of Pennsylvania Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fuentes, Marisa J.. 2016. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive. PENN University of Pennsylvania Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Fuentes, Marisa J.. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Fuentes, Marisa J.. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive 1st edition, PENN University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
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